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Lot 134
  • 134

William Zorach 1887-1966

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Description

  • William Zorach
  • Pigeon
  • labrador granite
  • height: 9 1/2 in.
  • (24.1 cm)
  • Executed in 1930.

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner, 1935

Exhibited

New York, Art Students League, 1950, no. 14, illustrated
San Antonio, Texas, 1956
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Miami, Florida; Columbus, Ohio; Cincinnati, Ohio, William Zorach, 1960
Waterville, Maine, Colby College Art Museum, Works of Art by Faculty Members of the College and Visiting Artists at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, June-September 1961, no. 5, illustrated
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 60 Years of American Art, July-September 1963
Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Roots of Abstract Art  in America 1910-1930, 1965, no. 198
New York, Bernard Danenberg Galleries, William Zorach, 1968, no. 10
New York, American Academy of Arts and Letters, William Zorach, 1969, no. 10

Literature

Paul Stower Wingert, The Sculpture of William Zorach, New York, 1938, no. 82
John H.I. Baur, William Zorach, New York, 1959, illustrated as fig. 31
Wayne Craven, Sculpture in America, New York, 1968, p. 578
Roberta K. Tarbell, Catalogue Raisonné of William Zorach's Sculpture, Ph.d. Dissertation, University of Delaware, 1976, no. 5, pp. 169-170, illustrated

Catalogue Note

This model was cast in bronze in an edition of 6.  A plaster cast also exists and is in the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution.